“I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.”
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“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.”
“Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.”
“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.”
“Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.”
“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.”
“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.”
“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”
“The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.”
“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”
“For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.”
“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
“The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.”
“Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”
“While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.”
“Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.”